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and that should be strictly unacceptable, not expected. Exploiting people is exploiting people. Not paying employees for overtime is not paying employees and LITERALLY ILLEGAL in most places.
Again, I don't f*cking care if something bad happens to EVERY business. It shouldn't be acceptable to abuse others. Period. For any reason. Full stop. Employment or not.
Your opinion is what leads to environments where this ends up happening. By anticipating it, organizations can address it. If you expect people to be good and do not put controls in place, you are arguably negligent. It is not illegal to work harder for your business. Culture not intentionally shifting as it grows larger naturally creates a gray area where people can be exploited.
Alternatively, to not allow small organizations to work hard while being nimble is to defer the entire space to increasingly consolidating large corporations with these cultural checks in place. A corporatocracy has it's own issues with organizational exploitation.
Just saying "be better" is not helpful because it is not actionable.
I am in no way what so ever either condoning the behavior or calling for a reduction in external tools for abused employees. What the hell are you even reading, because it's not my posts?
It is YOUR attitude that creates room for abuse. You are directly saying it should be OK for small businesses to overwork their employees, yet it is me who is creating room for the behavior?!?
Get your head on straight.
It is not acceptable and it happens every time in every organization, business or not as it grows. Simply saying that it is unacceptable without adding to the conversation is what you are doing.
You should reconsider your language when you communicate. Words matter in tone and content. You have very little content but a lot of tone.
It doesn't happen in every business, though. Saying that just belies the bad experience you've had.
Saying it is normal and happens all the time is language of normalition. If you understand it's not good, stop making excuses for it. Stop saying things that sound like excuses.
Poe's Law exists and causes tons of problems. It is YOUR language that is concerning if abusive work places should be viewed as a problem.
It doesn't happen in every business because many account for it and address it in their growth strategies. I would love to see mitigations of these horrible things normalized. Otherwise you allow them to happen. I'm not sure what you think you are attacking here but you've singled in on some portion of my narrative and taken it in a way no one else has.